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Argentina: trans women among victims of ex-officers guilty of dictatorship-era crimes
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Argentina: trans women among victims of ex-officers guilty of ...
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10 GOP state senators who staged long walkout can’t run for reelection, Oregon high court says
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Quick Glance: Oregon Supreme Court Blocks Reelection for Republican Senators
  • Tim Knopp, R-Bend, is one of five Republican senators who contested the interpretation of Measure 113 by the state.

  • After refusing to attend Senate floor sessions last year, eight Republican lawmakers in the Oregon Senate are prohibited from seeking reelection, ruled the Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday.

  • In a unanimous decision that may impact the upcoming legislative session, the court supported the interpretation of Measure 113 by Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade, the 2022 ballot measure approved by voters with the aim of ending legislative absences.

  • In doing so, the court adopted an interpretation of the law acknowledged by the state as difficult to reconcile with its actual language – effectively ruling that the clear intent of voters in passing the measure was more important than the plain wording inserted into the state Constitution.
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Maryland Senate approves legal protections for gender-affirming care: The Democrat-controlled Senate voted 33-13 on Tuesday for the measure that would provide ...
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Maryland Senate approves legal protections for gender-affirming care
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Defense Bill Agreement Angers Hard Right, Posing a Threat to Johnson: The new Republican speaker is facing fury from ultraconservative lawmakers for agreeing to ...
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Defense Bill Agreement Angers Hard Right, Posing a Threat to Johnson
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House Passes Defense Bill, Clearing It for Biden: Republicans and Democrats banded together to push through the legislation over the objections of right-wing ...
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House Passes Defense Bill, Clearing It for Biden
Quick Glance: Senate Passes Defense Bill, Rejecting Far-Right Policies
  • The $886 billion legislation is the result of bipartisan negotiations between the House and Senate, removing right-wing restrictions on abortion, transgender care, and diversity initiatives.

  • The measure has caused backlash in the House, with many Republicans angry at their leaders for dropping hard-line provisions.

  • The Senate overwhelmingly passed an $886 billion defense bill on Wednesday, defying demands from hard-right Republicans for partisan restrictions on abortion, transgender care, and diversity initiatives.

  • The defense bill also extends a program allowing warrantless surveillance of foreign individuals, which has come under scrutiny due to F.B.I.'s actions.
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State Spying Poses 'Roadblock' For Interstate Seekers of Abortion, Transgender Care: Report
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Did Mike Johnson Approve Funding to Give Transgender Teens Clothing?: House speaker is being rebuked by some Republicans for earmarks related to transgender and ...
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Did Mike Johnson Approve Funding to Give Transgender Teens Clothing?
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Tories divided over new definition of extremism: Trans rights critics and traditional Christians could be caught up in crackdown on Islamism
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Tories divided over new definition of extremism
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‘I’m not judging you’ – midwife Juno Carey on what it’s like to work in an abortion clinic
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Nebraska passes 12-week abortion, gender-affirming care for minors ban: The bans, merged into one bill, prompted protests at the capitol and outcries from ...
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Nebraska passes 12-week abortion, gender-affirming care for minors ban
Quick Glance: Nebraska Restricts Abortion and Transgender Medical Treatment for Minors
  • Conservative lawmakers bundled provisions restricting access to both forms of medical treatment into a single bill, which the governor has agreed to sign.

  • Democrats were outraged by the last-minute changes and saw it as a Republican compromise.

  • An earlier bill would have prohibited minors from receiving hormone therapy, operations, and puberty blockers.

  • The intensity of the debate this year in Nebraska was partly due to the personal nature of the transgender medical care issue for many Democrats.
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Colorado governor signs 3 major abortion protection bills: The trio of bills are designed to make Colorado a safe haven for women seeking an abortion.
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Colorado governor signs 3 major abortion protection bills
Quick Glance: The Supreme Court overturns lower court orders that limit abortion medicines.
  • Abortion rights and anti-abortion groups demonstrate outside the Supreme Court building.

  • The Supreme Court temporarily barred lower court orders imposing restrictions on the widely used abortion drug mifepristone on Friday, maintaining the status quo for the most frequent kind of medical abortion while a legal challenge to the Food and Drug Administration's jurisdiction is resolved.

  • Between the lines: The decision on Friday came less than a year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

  • Wade, in which the justices argued that the high court lacked the jurisdiction to define national abortion policy.
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Will the Supreme Court come for what remains of the right to privacy?: With courts coming for abortion and IVF, it’s hard not to wonder what’s next.
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Will the Supreme Court come for what remains of the right to privacy?
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Trump says GOP abortion message doesn’t work: ‘They don’t know what to say’: Former President Trump on Friday continued his attack on GOP lawmakers’ messaging on ...
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Trump says GOP abortion message doesn’t work: ‘They don’t know what to ...
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Democratic AGs are using the courts to win on abortion, gun control: Democratic state attorneys general are finding successes that eluded them for years.
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Democratic AGs are using the courts to win on abortion, gun control
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Pence outlines Day 1 executive actions if elected president: Former Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday outlined a slew of executive actions he would take on ...
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Pence outlines Day 1 executive actions if elected president
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House passes defense bill despite controversial abortion, transgender policies: The bill narrowly passed mostly along party lines.
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GOP presidential hopeful Doug Burgum says he'd leave abortion laws up to the states
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GOP presidential hopeful Doug Burgum says he'd leave abortion laws up to ...
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US House backs 'culture war' amendments in threat to must-pass defense bill: The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives added restrictions on abortion and ...
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US House backs 'culture war' amendments in threat to must-pass defense ...
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Washington, Minnesota become transgender and abortion sanctuaries: Democratic governors in Washington state and Minnesota on Thursday enacted legal protections ...
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Washington, Minnesota become transgender and abortion sanctuaries
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Spain parliament approves menstrual leave, teen abortion and transgender protections
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Spain parliament approves menstrual leave, teen abortion and transgender ...
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When we misread and mislead: Partnership between the European Union (EU) and its 27 Member States along with the 79 Member States of the Organisation of African ...
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When we misread and mislead
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Texas Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk Removed His Name From Anti-Abortion Article: Matthew Kacsmaryk—the far-right judge who blocked the approval of mifepristone—took ...
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Texas Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk Removed His Name From Anti-Abortion Article
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The Republicans’ culture wars are dooming the party to failure: The Republican Party’s extreme moral crusades come at the expense of focusing on the core issues ...
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The Republicans’ culture wars are dooming the party to failure
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How Kansas abortion protections could now impact voting, trans rights & death penalty
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Women Will Determine the 2024 Election: They’ve already shown what they can do over the past few years.
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Women Will Determine the 2024 Election
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The Looming Supreme Court Cases That Could Sway the 2024 Election: Supreme Court interventions "may serve as a big distraction to other political matters" before ...
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The Looming Supreme Court Cases That Could Sway the 2024 Election
Quick Glance: Focus on Ethics: Supreme Court Justices Return to Washington
  • Supreme Court justices will gather behind closed doors for their first meeting in Washington after the summer recess.

  • History indicates they will ultimately reject most of the petitions.

  • There is growing scrutiny on the court's ethics standards.

  • A Supreme Court ethics bill was proposed by the Senate Judiciary Committee in July.
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Health conference canceled after JPS pulled sponsorship over abortion, trans agenda items
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Health conference canceled after JPS pulled sponsorship over abortion ...
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Tuberville: Could military abortion policy lead to ‘taxpayer funded transgender surgeries for children?’
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Tuberville: Could military abortion policy lead to ‘taxpayer funded ...
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Nebraska ban on gender-affirming care and abortion heads to final vote: A less restrictive version of an abortion bill defeated by one vote last month was ...
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Nebraska ban on gender-affirming care and abortion heads to final vote
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Spain approves menstrual leave, teen abortion and trans laws: Measures allow workers suffering period pain to take paid time off as abortion rights are expanded.
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Spain approves menstrual leave, teen abortion and trans laws
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Jennifer Finney Boylan: Why do conservatives attack abortion and trans rights in the same ways?
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Jennifer Finney Boylan: Why do conservatives attack abortion and trans ...
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New Texas laws affecting trans athletes, drag queens and DEI: New Texas laws that go into effect Sept. 1, include mail voting laws, transgender athletes ...
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New Texas laws affecting trans athletes, drag queens and DEI
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India Expands Abortion Access to Single Women and Survivors of Marital Rape: India’s Supreme Court has ruled that all women can access abortion care up to 24 ...
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Quick Glance: The Supreme Court of India has legalized abortion regardless of marital status.
  • "Even an unmarried woman can undergo abortion up to 24 weeks on par with married women," declared India's Supreme Court's Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, declaring that a woman's marital status could not determine her right to abort.

  • "In an era that includes Dobbs vs Jackson, and makes distinctions between the marital status of women who are raped, this excellent judgment on abortion under the MTP Act hits it out of the park," Karuna Nundy, an advocate specializing in gender law and other topics, tweeted.

  • She was referring to the case that resulted in the June decision by the United States Supreme Court.
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‘Death Star law’ to abortion: the new rightwing laws taking effect in Texas: Hundreds of new state laws come into effect on 1 September, including attacking ...
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‘Death Star law’ to abortion: the new rightwing laws taking effect in ...
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House passes defense bill after GOP adopts abortion and transgender surgery amendments
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Quick Glance: Controversial defense budget approved by US House of Representatives
  • Vote on defense budget reflects sharp partisan divide in the House of Representatives.

  • Democrats show little support for the spending package, while some Republicans oppose it.

  • Conservative Republicans leverage defense legislation for cultural and social priorities.

  • Democrats in the Senate are developing their own military spending legislation without controversial abortion and transgender provisions.
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Senate Passes Defense Bill, Setting Up Fight Over Abortion, Transgender Care: The Democratic-led $886 billion legislation excludes social-policy measures favored ...
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Senate Passes Defense Bill, Setting Up Fight Over Abortion ...
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A small group of conservative doctors has sought to shape the nation’s most contentious policies on abortion and transgender rights by promoting views rejected ... Show more
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Spain Passes Historic Laws on Trans Rights, Abortion and Menstrual Leave: Other changes brought about by Thursday's vote include offering free menstrual ...
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Spain Passes Historic Laws on Trans Rights, Abortion and Menstrual Leave
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Fresh Fallout From the Supreme Court’s Dobbs Ruling Just Hit Trans People: Dobbs and Geduldig play a central role in the defense of laws targeting transgender ...
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Fresh Fallout From the Supreme Court’s Dobbs Ruling Just Hit Trans People
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No Labels releases proposals to guide third-party presidential ticket : The broad statements of principle, compiled in book form and scheduled for a rollout ...
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No Labels releases proposals to guide third-party presidential ticket
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LIVE: US House to vote on National Defense Authorization Act The U.S. House is expected to vote on the National Defense Authorization Act after Republicans ... Show more
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In the face of unjust bans, California can expand lifesaving, gender-affirming care | Opinion
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In the face of unjust bans, California can expand lifesaving ...
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Political Attacks on Transgender Health Care Are Hurting Kids: The 2023 legislative session has seen a raft of state bans on gender-affirming care ...
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Political Attacks on Transgender Health Care Are Hurting Kids
Quick Glance: Attacks on Transgender Health Care Harm Children
  • Transgender youth face increasing difficulty accessing the health care they need.

  • According to HRC, 44% of trans youth have already lost access to gender-affirming care or are at risk of doing so.

  • The 130 bills restricting transgender health care

  • Southern and midwestern states have introduced the most laws restricting access to gender-affirming health care.
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Biden Sidesteps Any Notion That He’s a ‘Flaming Woke Warrior’: Despite his alliance with abortion-rights supporters and L.G.B.T.Q. advocates ...
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Biden Sidesteps Any Notion That He’s a ‘Flaming Woke Warrior’
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Anohni: “There needs to be a reckoning”: When she was at school in California in 1989, an 18-year-old Anohni heard something that still informs her thinking ...
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Anohni: “There needs to be a reckoning”
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After Roe v. Wade was overturned, the choice to sterilize: For Josie Norris, an Express-News photographer, the end of Roe led to a sterilization procedure to ...
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After Roe v. Wade was overturned, the choice to sterilize
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Supermajorities in state capitols push controversial policies to the fore: A historically high number of supermajorities in state legislatures has pushed laws ...
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Supermajorities in state capitols push controversial policies to the fore
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This Pride Month, let’s count the wins for queer and trans rights: There has been laudable progress on legislative, judicial fronts in recent years — from ...
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This Pride Month, let’s count the wins for queer and trans rights
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Abortion and trans rights advocates see parallel in struggle: As conservative lawmakers introduce a record number of anti-transgender bills ...
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Abortion and trans rights advocates see parallel in struggle
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What To Know About Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk—Controversial Trump-Appointee Blocking Abortion Pill
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What To Know About Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk—Controversial Trump-Appointee ...
Quick Glance: Analysis: Texas abortion pill ruling could jeopardise US drug oversight
  • WASHINGTON, April 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. A federal judge in Texas could soon order the FDA to withdraw its approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, a move that, if allowed to stand, could severely undermine the agency, according to health policy and legal experts.

  • Experts say that if the court decides to prohibit the sale of mifepristone because it is unsafe, it will effectively end the FDA's role as the ultimate arbiter of drug safety.

  • The entire drug approval process would be called into question, according to Laurie Sobel, associate director for Women's Health Policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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How Biden has navigated LGBTQ issues as a Catholic president: President Biden, only the second Catholic president in U.S. history, is navigating LGBTQ issues in ...
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How Biden has navigated LGBTQ issues as a Catholic president
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Conservative attacks on US abortion and trans healthcare come from the same place
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Conservative attacks on US abortion and trans healthcare come from the ...
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Judith Butler on Roe vs Wade, trans rights and the war on education: The fallout from the US Supreme Court ruling on 24 June that overturned Roe vs Wade ...
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Judith Butler on Roe vs Wade, trans rights and the war on education
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Nebraska Governor Signs Combined Anti-Trans, Anti-Abortion Bill Into Law: This marks “the most significant win for social conservatives in a generation ...
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Nebraska Governor Signs Combined Anti-Trans, Anti-Abortion Bill Into Law
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Peter Thiel Says He Won’t Donate to Any Candidates in 2024: Report: Associates say the billionaire megadonor is keeping his cash out of the next presidential ...
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Peter Thiel Says He Won’t Donate to Any Candidates in 2024: Report
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Nebraska Lawmakers Pass 12-Week Abortion Ban and Limits on Care for Trans Minors: The same bill limits gender-affirming care for trans minors.
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A different way of looking at how states have rushed to the right: Blue and red sometimes get blurry.
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A different way of looking at how states have rushed to the right
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Mainstream Feminism Has Failed Us: From the coming fall of Roe v. Wade to the egregious public treatment of abuse victims, we’re witnessing the limits of ...
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Mainstream Feminism Has Failed Us
Quick Glance: Johnny Depp Spent Over Rs 45 Lakh At An Indian Restaurant In Birmingham To Celebrate Trial Victory
  • In his nasty defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard, the jury ruled in favor of Johnny Depp, and the actor was handed a staggering $10.35 million judgment.

  • While Johnny Depp's ex-wife Amber Heard's lawyer has already stated that the Aquaman actress is 'absolutely not' able to pay the compensation, it appears the actor is celebrating his defamation trial win with his friends.

  • Returning to his trial, Johnny Depp issued a statement shortly after winning the six-week-long defamation trial.

  • Amber Heard's Reaction to Losing Defamation Case
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Former Vice President Mike Pence to speak at Ohio Christian group’s fundraiser: Former Vice President Mike Pence, who is weighing whether to run for president in ...
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Former Vice President Mike Pence to speak at Ohio Christian group’s ...